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lbuchaOct 12, 2010
i <3 matt williams
tyg10Oct 12, 2010
Me too! thanks, Matt!!!
giddtendoOct 13, 2010
Digg Vs Facebook http://bit.ly/cCccmO who wins?
Closed AccountOct 13, 2010
Is that a joke? Facebook wouldn't even notice Digg on the bottom of their shoe.
kingpOct 13, 2010
Thank you Matt!
rayzxrOct 13, 2010
and no matter what people say, i still <3 digg
rethreadOct 14, 2010
Someone had to give them the big FU to make things work. Think about that... Think of all the people who gave their user-names up to improve the situation
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/war.casualties/
+45 seconds on the editing time! I might get it done in a long post in +10. Needs to be tweaked. I track the casualties of others errors. Find the error, fix it, post.
rethreadOct 14, 2010
f**kING "SACRIFICED" GODDAMMIT! 45 f**kING SECONDS, WOULD FIX A LOT OF LITTLE THINGS. It's the little things that count.
rethreadOct 14, 2010
I can send the best advice right now. Add a "send now" button. You can keep the timer. Add a send now button. Add 45 seconds or several minutes. And a "send now" button. Freaking idiots.
mwdiggOct 14, 2010Staff
Thanks lbucha. And thanks to everyone who has posted such kind words and/or offered really helpful feedback. The entire team at Digg cares deeply and is working hard to improve the site.
badqatOct 12, 2010
Digg CEO Matt Williams said "the launch of Digg v4 didn’t go smoothly, and we’re deeply sorry that we disappointed our Digg community in the process."
To say the launch (which honestly, continues to this day as they're still adding missing features) didn't go smoothly is putting it mildly.
I hope the community recovers. Only real conversations taking place (albeit rudely) are on political threads.
I also hope Williams is serious in honestly listening to user feedback. Most of the complaints (no bury, lack of upcoming and all the missing features) were sent into Digg well before the launch of v4. I just don't believe they listened at all then.
Listening is awesome, but actually taking the time to iterate the feedback would be even better.
elmuerte17Oct 13, 2010
I fear for most of the folks that left Digg, it's "too little, too late" and they won't be back no matter how many features get reinstated. Sadly, it also seems that of the ones that left, a good chunk contributed to the comments a great deal more than those that remain.
duke0fvandalsOct 13, 2010
Oh for Christ's sake. While I agree with you to an extent, this isn't some star-crossed romance, and this isn't the kind of relationship we've all been having with Chase and Wells Fargo for years now. It isn't like users were explicitly betrayed, and it isn't as if they were pushed to some kind of breaking point, the site implemented change and new features (which were generally crap) and people left. What I'm getting at is that there's no logic to support that people wouldn't come back to Digg if it was restored to the same mechanics it possessed before v4 came out. And even if those particular users don't come back, this is still the internet, and it isn't as if there's a limited number of people for Digg's users to grow from, and if that's what is necessary then the community will rebuild itself from the people who haven't left.
From that point all that would be required on our part, aside from using the site as we normally would, would be setting an example for the kind of community we want to experience here. Now that something is actually being done, acting like digg is still a sinking ship isn't going to help anything.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
davidblake86Oct 13, 2010
I agree. The comments are just not the same anymore and not even worth reading. I used to go straight to the comments but now its like a ghost town around here.
g8kprOct 22, 2010
I can't even remember the last time I've seen a Pedobear or Admiral ackbar. The humour and great comments are gone. Sad really. I used to come on Digg, read an article, and then spend an hour reading comments, usually laughing out loud at work over many of them. Now I just read the articles, scan the comments, and watch as people fight amongst themselves, and people post the most inane responses.
"inaccurate title" and "saw on reddit yesterday"
fieldhockey44Oct 13, 2010
Exactly. I have to admit I'm one of the many that jumped ship to Reddit; this is my first time back to Digg in over 6 weeks. I don't feel like losing Digg has actually cost me anything since there was a compatible alternative available, and now that I've settled in there I don't really feel like adding any of this stuff back will make me suddenly want to switch back to Digg.
elcadOct 14, 2010
It took me a few weeks to get comfortable there, but I now rarely comeback to Digg. If my homepage didn't show still show me current stories from here I would not be posting now.
The spam has taken over here and no one seems to be doing anything about it. I used the report button 5 days ago on this news post:
http://digg.com/news/technology/ricoh_sp_220a_a...
The spam is still there.
elcadOct 14, 2010
Plus they let me edit my comments so my typos don't make me sound like a confused idiot. I am really not that confused.
rethreadOct 14, 2010
I fake all my typos. You talkin' about me?
darwininmotionOct 14, 2010
I jumped to reddit but left after a week. I have no idea how anyone could comment "seen it on reddit" when I never found anything interesting on their front page, just billions of whinges and NSFW s**te.
metroidragonOct 14, 2010
Yes, also one of those that jumped ship over to reddit, first time back in a couple months. But although I'm glad this is happening for the remaining community it won't make much difference for me. While I love this site and have contributed many dozens (hundreds) of hours of my life on it, reddit has shown me the wonders that a true community based news site is.
PS. If anyone is curious as to the basic difference between the two, Digg is one large community, while reddit is hundreds of smaller communities specifically focusing on every subject imaginable allowing for near infinite customization of your experience. Both methods have advantages, Digg's method allows for the 'digg effect' which brings tens of thousands of users to a single website in an instant, while at reddit the sense of community is a lot stronger, despite it having more users.
fieldhockey44Oct 15, 2010
@metroidragon - perfect description of the difference between the two sites. I happen to like Reddit's setup more, just a personal preference, so it's pretty unlikely that I (and others like me) will start to come back to Digg on a regular basis, no matter what features they change. And now that tons of Diggers have left, the entire 'digg effect' has been reduced to a shadow of what it once was. The main attraction that Digg had (its community) is gone, and small feature changes can't bring that back. Digg is dead.
bigtime2Oct 13, 2010
One of the reason for the comment issue (I think) is that we are not aware of replies to our comment. I left about 15 comments today, and that's it. During the old Digg I would have left 15 comments and then half of those would get replies where I would go back and respond to each reply, which in turn would cause more people to get involved in each of those discussions.
Now, I can't see if anyone replied to my comment because I can only see the last 10 comments that I posted. Even if some people respond to my comments those same people will not be aware if I respond to them.
coachmcguirkOct 14, 2010
I used to frequent Digg at least 10-12 times a day, and was a quasi-frequent commentor. I will admit that I have now migrated to Reddit and check Digg AT MOST once in every 2-3 days, and usually just to see how far gone it is. It is sad to see so many stories with under 100 diggs and no real comments worth reading.
I honestly don't see myself returning to Digg because I don't see Digg ever fully recovering the vast majority of the community that has been ousted during this "redesign".
I have been pretty surprised at how comfortably I transitioned to Reddit, and it appears as if most of the worthwhile community beat me over there, or was there all along. I miss Digg the way it was, but I hope Digg as it is now would just cease to be. It really is a shame to see something that used to be so tight and refined turn into worthless congregate rss feed that it has become.
My only regret is that I didn't start visiting Reddit sooner... At least early enough to get my digg nickname of coachmcguirk..... from here on out you can catch me as johnmcguirk on Reddit. See you guys there.
shaymojackOct 14, 2010
I've barely used Digg at all since v4, and I sincerely want to get back into using it more often. I really hope that they're able to fix it and bring back a good portion of the community.
krandenOct 13, 2010
I was going to write a detailed eloquent post but badqat pretty much summed up everything that needed to be said. I could give a crap about power users at the moment, but as accurately as its been said many times.
these comments suck
bernlin2000Oct 14, 2010
For the CEO of a company, saying something didn't go smoothly is pretty clear, CEO's aren't really suppose to talk about bad news, it's bad for business. It took him too long, but I'm glad he spoke up now.
sharkymiragicalOct 12, 2010
How about bringing amount of pops and pop ratios back?
nichesiteexpertOct 13, 2010
Meh. Too little, too late... Digg, I stopped loving you when you bitchslapped us all during the v4 launch. I spend a whole lot more time on Reddit now - it's my first destination rather than an aside. Once the love affair is destroyed by an abusive lover, it ain't coming back...Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
davidtcOct 13, 2010
Then leave.
elmuerte17Oct 13, 2010
And yet you're still here...
timbuc1Oct 13, 2010
Bring the pop ratio back
diggerlaterOct 13, 2010
Well it's a good first step in the right direction. I'm also still pretty upset about the V4 fiasco, but I'll stick around and see what happens. It's an interesting transformation that Digg is undergoing, anyhow.
davidtcOct 13, 2010
Pretty much the only people who don't want the bury button back are the powerusers who spam this crap on the site.
user500Oct 13, 2010
why would they care? They have an army of followers. These guys post about going pee and they got 5,000 followers hanging on to every detail.
bigtime2Oct 13, 2010
That is true. Power users never cared about bury button. How many times did MrBabyMan's submission get removed from the front page because of too many buries? Probably Never. If I had submitted a controversial article it would have been buried to death because I didn't have 5,000 followers to Digg my submission.
burden555Oct 13, 2010
They don't want the bury button back because top news stories will have like 100 diggs because only crap makes it to the digg front page. The users know that, the developers know that, and diggs dead. The bury button will simply be digging it a deeper grave. RIP digg.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
dteleOct 13, 2010
"Other improvements may help bring people back."
May... but I think rolling back to the last site would probably be a huge improvement on the current fiasco.
hipmanOct 13, 2010
We've been through this...they can't.
Closed AccountOct 13, 2010
Who has been through it ? You? Yeah...you are an expert. They COULD revert it. There is nothing stopping them. They can claim that it couldn't handle the load. But that is bulls**t since the new Digg is getting about 30% LESS traffic and it goes down far more often. So obviously the new infrastructure is worse.
gndoabOct 13, 2010
except he said he was going to add back entire user and comment histories. If he can do that, they still have the old site somewhere.
jinchoungOct 13, 2010
get rid of the goddamn motherf**king INLINE ADS!
agmlauncherOct 13, 2010
Maybe if people didn't block ads, the inline ads wouldn't be necessary. How do you think this site pays its staff and its server costs? Ads.
Naturally I'll get buried for pointing out the reality that salaries, servers, and bandwidth costs money....
javaroastOct 13, 2010
Maybe if sites didn't become obnoxious with ads... popovers, popunders, loud ads, ads that block content, malware infested ads... there would be no need for ad blockers. Ads came first... blockers came after sites proved they couldn't be trusted.
Instead of making ads appealing, (it can be done. think sunday paper) sites decided they'd just sign up for an ad service, let the ad service run whatever and sit back and watch the dollars roll in. They broke the trust with their users and then ad blockers became more prevalent. To blame the users is denying that the sites themselves have any responsibility for what came to pass.
elmuerte17Oct 13, 2010
/agree
Back in the day, I even used to click a few of those... some of 'em actually had cool merchandise at reasonable prices. Now it's all Viagra ads and botnets.
elcadOct 14, 2010
"Back in the day". If I could see my comment history, I could tell you the exact date this summer that Digg decided to treat us to some noise playing banner ads.
Closed AccountOct 13, 2010
How does the site pay its staff and servers? Well, thus far it has been through handouts from investors. The site it not profitable. It does not even break even. So sure, the ads do help Digg not burn through their handouts quite as fast, but they DON'T pay the bills.
agmlauncherOct 13, 2010
And what idiotic investor would give a site capital if that site had no strategy or means of monetizing its traffic?
At any rate, you've just done a good job of illustrating the problem with ad blocking. Obnoxious ads or not, those obnoxious ads pay 5-10x better than standard ads, and given how expensive it is to run a site as large as digg, sometimes you don't have a choice.
But go ahead, keep blocking ads. Just don't complain when digg and other sites start adding interstitials just to stay afloat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial_webpageComment is buried, click here to see the rest.
c_calienteOct 14, 2010
Then they better f**king downsize.
Why do they need 80 people on the payroll anyway?? They don't generate any content.
Around 10 people should be more than enough to run this website.
nuiloaOct 13, 2010
How would you recommend paying for the site?
dusanmalOct 13, 2010
Ads... But not intentionally camouflaged as content. Even in-line ads would be tolerable if a) they were clearly distinguished from the content (ex. background behind them gray color,... present "sponsored by" is not enough) b) NO Digg button or any other content related link associated with them. Ads are NOT content. Finally, they should have ad-tester in charge able to remove any obnoxious ones (I turned on my ad-blocker specifically because of Digg ... at that time dominated by large, obstructive flash pop-overs).
agmlauncherOct 13, 2010
You complain about the digg button yet the digg button is how you can have control over the ads that digg shows you. The way it works is quite genius. The more diggs an in-line ad receives, the cheaper it is for the advertiser to run it since the community thinks the ad is decent/relevant. The fewer diggs an ad gets, the more expensive it becomes, effectively pricing it out of the system.
The ads are community powered. You can't complain about those any more than you can complain about any other story that makes it to the front page that you don't like/aren't interested in.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
Closed AccountOct 13, 2010
ITs not genius if it isn't working. And hte bottom line is that THE bottom line shows that it isn't. Why the f**k do you think the new Digg happened in the first place/ IT is because Digg was given an ultimatum by the money men who are sick and tired of handing out free money to a six year old site that still shows NO signs of knowing how to pay for itself, let alone return a profit for the investors.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
shadowspawnOct 14, 2010
block dads.new.digg.com/* and z.digg.com/*
tomyclikOct 13, 2010
Matt is good that you said: "Sorry, Sorry, Sorry"
Odoi12chrisOct 13, 2010
Apology accepted
kingpOct 13, 2010
Captain Needa...there finished that for ya.
Closed AccountOct 13, 2010
Really? Holy f**king s**t you are a pushover.
agmlauncherOct 13, 2010
Ok your first act as new CEO is to add a CAPTCHA to your new account signups page. The fact that you don't have one at all is shocking. I get the need to make a clean/simple signup page, but having to bury multiple spam posts from bots in every story I read is getting obnoxious.
Closed AccountOct 13, 2010
yeah, because in the old Digg with the captcha, those spam comments NEVER happened!
agmlauncherOct 13, 2010
Nowhere near as frequently as they do now. Every single story now has multiple spam comments.
elcadOct 14, 2010
I agree. But maybe then there were just as many spam comments, but they were buried in a sea of real comments. Now in some threads the spam has taken over.
biggles1000Oct 18, 2010
Unfortunately, I couldn't agree more. Digg really needs to sort security out again. Also, why are there usernames on my recently active list that I don't follow? No coincidence that they're spam as well.
elwoodbluesOct 13, 2010
simplify: we are losing money and users since v4, so we need to revert to try and keep some of you here from checking out reddit and moving there.
kingpOct 13, 2010
Yeah, I'll die with Digg before I go to Reddit. That site's design is awful, and the commentary is on par with 4chan. Might as well just go to 4chan.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
sirfoxxOct 13, 2010
Hyberbole much? I don't know what form of 4chan you've actually seen, but the commentary on Reddit is nothing like commentary on 4chan.
kmyeOct 13, 2010
Funniest comment I've seen on my little visit back here. :D Have you seen the comments here lately? They're one (half) step better than youtube.
dayoldbluesOct 13, 2010
4chan is the death and birth of the internet. Reddit is just nice people. Digg is arrogance. Yeah, I said it.
crimsonjonesOct 13, 2010
Shows how much you know.
evildeadashOct 13, 2010
I tried reddit an I couldn't stand it. As bad as v4 is i won't return there.
blackinthmiddleOct 13, 2010
What didn't you like about it? You know that you can change the look of the site, right? Right now, I have reddit set up to look just like digg v3 did. Give it a chance, it's pretty nice.
adamhoekmusicOct 13, 2010
Im still pretty new to digg. So i dont really know what the burry button does. but I'm not liking those Ads that i keep clicking away, but keep returning. Whats up with that?
breakzoidbegOct 14, 2010
Here's an old school digg comment: Firefox and Addblock plus.
january14nOct 13, 2010
still new with the new digg so what's up?
ajajadudeOct 13, 2010
FTA: “Personally, I do not want the bury button back because most people use it to bury stories they just don’t agree with or like,” said a longtime user with the moniker ‘BeShirtHappy.’ “There needs to be moderators, maybe, to keep the spam off the top news, but not a bury button. It will be misused.”
You, sir, are an idiot. Given the amount of garbage that's made it to the Top News section, we need a bury button. Hell, half the submissions deserve to be buried into oblivion based on the sheer suckiness of the comments.
diggeradoOct 13, 2010
Seriously. If someone's abusing the bury button, ban their account. Doesn't seem hard. Maybe someone should have to have a certain amount of time in the system before the bury button becomes available.
elmuerte17Oct 13, 2010
I'm all for missing the occasional pro-Liberal article the Digg Patriots bury to oblivion as long as I don't have to see spam on the frontpage. A couple extra Conservative articles aren't going to change my views any...
user500Oct 13, 2010
if anything they provoke better comments
diggerlaterOct 13, 2010
I totally agree. That is the EXACT REASON for the bury button, so that people can bury things they don't like or don't agree with. Thats what makes the content that rises to the top be content that people like. It's not a hard concept.
Closed AccountOct 13, 2010
No it isn't. The bury button was never supposed to be about immature children like you not wanting to hear opposing viewpoints.
user500Oct 13, 2010
no it isn't. The bury button was to bury for whatever reason you want. Go back to the good old days before Kevan Rose got money hungry and read about the bury button.
grymusOct 13, 2010
Dear Mr. Williams:
Please add the ability to remove followers / Block users.
evildeadashOct 13, 2010
Oh please, yes. My god I need this.
diggeradoOct 13, 2010
This isn't the first time that digg users had to back-slap the people that run this site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy#DMCA_notices_and_Digg
nicklo06Oct 13, 2010
“Personally, I do not want the bury button back because most people use it to bury stories they just don’t agree with or like,”
This is the most artarded comment i have ever seen on the bury button. The button existed to filter out all the s**t stories that are currently all over digg. Most people didn't "like" them because they sucked. Granted, it was abused (looking at you bury brigade), but its crap-filter power far outweighs the potential for abuse.
jgregcOct 13, 2010
Firstly, you couldn't even type the word "retarded". And this coming from someone who is not and probably has never been an "active" digger on Digg. Please... the bury button is most definitely used just for the sheer spite of it and to bury stories they don't politically or religiously, etc., agree with. Or to bury sites they don't like and I could go on....Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
nicklo06Oct 13, 2010
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=artard, you f**king artard
nicklo06Oct 13, 2010
and your stupid comment just says what that stupid bitch said in the article. I never denied that it was used for that purpose by some users, my point is that without the bury feature, digg is now chalk full of crappy articles, but you are obviously too much of a n00b to see that.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
breadfredOct 13, 2010
Please do us a favor and go back to YouTube.
mugichaOct 13, 2010
Artard.
Closed AccountOct 13, 2010
While I want the bury button, he is right and you are laughably wrong. It happens with comments too. PEople use it for censorship. (And NOT just the Digg Patriots or even the right.) Digg is full of children who don't want to hear differing views, no matter how well thought out and presented they are. No matter how much evidence is used to back up the statement either. So they do the equivalent of sticking their fingers in their ears and singing MAry Had a Little Lamb at the top of their lungs, which with Digg is to bury or digg down.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
fyberopticOct 13, 2010
I understand Matt's desire to apologize considering his position, despite it not being his fault. But if he wants to truly show how much he plans to make it up to the fans, he'll promise that Kevin Rose will never have a hand in Digg's decision-making process again. He didn't make Digg to start with, which is probably part of its initial success, so I don't know why he took it upon himself to bastardize it into another of his failed social media projects.
Anyone else notice that Matt comes across as more genuine, too? Kevin always came across as "Yeah I'm telling you want you want to hear so that you'll shut up, and I doubt I'll ever listen to you."
elmuerte17Oct 13, 2010
Still waiting for "Report User"
...damn spammers
diggerlaterOct 13, 2010
Looks like you got your wish...
netneutralityOct 13, 2010
Hurrah!
speedyrevOct 13, 2010
It may be too late. I only show up once a day and very rarely click a link while I'm here. A huge part of the Digg community has moved on.
Will they come back?
dayal911Oct 13, 2010
I honestly don't think so. The only reason I came here was because I heard of said apology.
I doubt they'll be able to get it back to what it was.
inajeepOct 13, 2010
I think many that left won't hear the apology nor care. The three F's rule. Fickle, flighty and f**king impatient.
warlok480Oct 13, 2010
well as much as 'new' digg annoys me i'm not going to that 1995 reject, Reddit
Closed AccountOct 13, 2010
Seven weeks and counting sinec the site broke. Sure, we can talk about hte spam, or hte bury button removal, but the fact is that those are preferences more than anything else. The far worse situation for Digg is that after 7 full weeks now, the site is STILL broken. When you click on a link, there is still probably a good 25% chance it will not take you where you want to go. SEVEN WEEKS of a site being basically down.
cawpinOct 13, 2010
That's funny, it seems like it worked fine when typed and submitted this stupid f**king comment.
bernlin2000Oct 14, 2010
I've never had a problem with broken links, except for the first week the new site was up. So your point is very outdated and not applicable to the site today.
drowningfishOct 13, 2010
Sorry Digg but this is too late. When I provided feedback during beta I made it a point to note that losing the /bury option was something I was not keen on seeing happen. I highly doubt I was the only one to have mentioned the bury issue during beta.
Now, a few months later, you are bringing back 2006? No thanks. Good-luck Digg. I have moved to reddit.......
:-(Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
phatbyteOct 14, 2010
What are you still doing here then ?
slavigulaOct 13, 2010
Translation: new CEO has no balls and welcomes the bury brigade back. All of you crying kids can come back and play with your favorite toy “Bury” button while he’ll be making his money.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
rickybennettOct 13, 2010
As for the return of the ‘bury’ feature to the site, not everyone is happy. “Personally, I do not want the bury button back because most people use it to bury stories they just don’t agree with or like
will yea that's the f**king point of it
garagepunkOct 13, 2010
so boringly predictable, anti digg/negative digg posts always get to #1.
blackinthmiddleOct 13, 2010
FTA:
"As for the return of the ‘bury’ feature to the site, not everyone is happy. “Personally, I do not want the bury button back because most people use it to bury stories they just don’t agree with or like,” said a longtime user with the moniker ‘BeShirtHappy.’ “There needs to be moderators, maybe, to keep the spam off the top news, but not a bury button. It will be misused.”
I think BeShirtHappy misses the point of digg. It's supposed to be a user driven website. If the bury brigade buries a story, then guess what? The users have spoken. The users don't want the story on digg. Once you make it something other than user driven content, then how is it any different than just being force fed your news from any general news outlet?
cseesOct 13, 2010
i think it's on its way to something even better, we'll just have to wait.
thomasmckOct 13, 2010
Ok, this is what I get with Digg today. Wanna know why it sucks now? This is a damn good reason.
http://i.imgur.com/mfDPt.jpg
rasmgOct 13, 2010
so are you bringing back labs>biggspy or should i continue to forget digg ever existed?